Winding Trails Receives Grant

August 12, 2010

FARMINGTON — — The Winding Trails recreational facility received a $350,000 grant this week from the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving for its Save Walton Pond capital campaign.

Save Walton Pond is a $1.4 million project at the 63-year-old recreation center that would clean the water and restore aquatic life at Walton and Trout ponds. They are expected to be restored by May 2011.

The revitalization will include restructuring the Trout Pond dam, removing sediment and widening trails, among other things.

In the meantime, campers and volunteers are helping to remove Walton Pond's wildlife before construction can begin. During the past four weeks, 4,888 mussels, 558 fish, 49 reptiles and 642 amphibians have been rescued and relocated.